Columbus

Columbus is a Latinized version of the Italian surname "Colombo". It most commonly refers to:
Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), the Italian explorer
Columbus, Ohio, the capital city of the U.S. state of Ohio
Columbus, Georgia, the 2nd-largest city in the U.S. State of Georgia
Columbus may also refer to:
Places
Extraterrestrial
Columbus (crater), a crater on Mars
Columbus (ISS module), the European module for the International Space Station
Columbus (spacecraft), a program to develop a European space station 1986–1991
Italy
Columbus (Rome), a residential district
United States
Columbus, Arkansas
Columbus, Georgia, the 119th-largest city in the United States, and the 2nd-largest in Georgia after Atlanta
Columbus, Illinois
Columbus, Indiana, known for modern architecture
Columbus, Kansas
Columbus, Kentucky
Columbus, Minnesota
Columbus, Mississippi
Columbus, Missouri
Columbus, Montana
Columbus, Nebraska
Columbus, New Jersey
Columbus, New Mexico
Columbus, New York
Columbus, North Carolina
Columbus, North Dakota
Columbus, Ohio, the largest city in the United States with this name
Columbus, Texas
Columbus, Wisconsin
Columbus (town), Wisconsin
Columbus Avenue (disambiguation)
Columbus Circle, a traffic circle in Manhattan, New York
Columbus City (disambiguation)
Columbus Township (disambiguation)
Persons with the name
Forename
Columbus Caldwell (1830–1908), American politician
Columbus Germain (1827–1880), American politician
Columbus Short (born 1982), American choreographer and actor
Surname
Bartholomew Columbus (c. 1461–1515), Christopher Columbus's younger brother
Chris Columbus (filmmaker) (born 1958), American filmmaker
Diego Columbus (1479/80–1526), Christopher Columbus' eldest son
Ferdinand Columbus (1488–1539), Christopher Columbus' second son
Scott Columbus (1956–2011), long-time drummer for the heavy metal band Manowar
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
Columbus (2015 film), an Indian comedy, subtitled "Discovering Love"
Columbus (2017 film), an American drama set amidst the architecture of Columbus, Indiana
Columbus (Star Trek), a shuttlecraft in the Star Trek series
Music
Opera
Columbus (Egk), German-language opera by Egk, 1943
Columbus, 1855 opera by František Škroup
Christophe Colomb, French-language opera by Milhaud often referred to as Columbus in English sources
Other uses in music
Columbus (Herzogenberg), large scale cantata by Heinrich von Herzogenberg 1870
"Colombus", song by Mary Black from No Frontiers
"Columbus" (song), a song by the band Kent from their album Tillbaka till samtiden
Christopher Columbus, pastiche of music by Offenbach to a new English libretto by Don White recorded by the Opera Rara label in 1977
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
Columbus (novel), a 1941 novel about Christopher Columbus by Rafael Sabatini
Columbus (Bartholdi), a statue depicting Christopher Columbus by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, in Providence, Rhode Island, US
Columbus Edwards, the character known as Lum of Lum and Abner
Brands and enterprises
COLUMBUS, ab initio quantum chemistry software
ColumBus, former name of Howard Transit in Howard County, Maryland
Columbus Communications, a cable television and broadband speed Internet service provider in the Caribbean region
Columbus Salame, an American food processing company
Columbus Tubing, an Italian manufacturer of bicycle frame tubing
Columbus Buggy Company, an American automotive manufacturer from 1875 to 1913
Ships
Columbus (1824), a disposable ship built to transport lumber from North America to Britain
MS Columbus, a cruise ship owned by Plantours & Partner GmbH
MV Columbus, a cruise ship owned by Seajets
SS Christopher Columbus, Great Lakes excursion liner (1893–1933)
SS City of Columbus, a passenger steamer that sailed from Boston to Savannah and sank off Martha's Vineyard in 1884
SS Columbus (1873), an American merchantman converted in 1878 into the Russian cruiser Asia
SS Columbus (1924), a transatlantic ocean liner for the North German Lloyd steamship line
USS Columbus, various ships of the US Navy
Other uses
Columbus hops, a variety of hops
Generation of Columbuses, a generation of Poles born ca. 1920, who had to fight twenty years later
Columbus (shopping centre), a shopping centre in Vuosaari, Helsinki, Finland
See also
Christopher Columbus (disambiguation)
Columbus City Hall (disambiguation)
Columba
Columbia (disambiguation)
Columbus Day
List of places named for Christopher Columbus